Can you verify the below noted email I received- sounds like 'hooie' to me?

Question

The prestigious Microsoft and AOL has set out and successfully
organised a Sweepstakes for our email owners for the month of
april/may 2007.
100,000.000.00 (One Hundred Million Great Britain Pounds) is been roll
out to all our email account owners. Participants for the draws were
randomly
selected and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their
patronage.
The selection was made through a computer draw system attaching
personalised email addresses to ticket numbers.Microsoft and AOL are
now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that
Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and
AOL are running an e-mail beta test.
Your email was luckily drawn by a computer balloting system as one of
our winners in our experimental lottery bonanza from the prestigous
MICROSOFT AND AOL ONLINE PROMOTION. Thus, making you the winner
Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number
008795727498 with serial numbers BTD/9080648302/06 and drew the lucky
numbers 14-21-25-39-40-47(20) which subsequently won you 500,000.00GBP
(Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds) as one of the jackpot
winners in this draw. You have therefore won the entire winning sum of
500,000.00GBP (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds).
We appreciate your patronage. This draw was held on the 26-05-2007
and the result was sent to my office today.

Please be informed by this winning notification,to file your claims,you
are to make contact with your designated agent who shall by duty guide
you through the process to facilitate the release of your prize.
Please contact our Fiduciary Agent for VALIDATION.
**************************************************

DR JOHN MATHINS
Microsoft Promotion Award Team
Head Winning Claims Dept.
TELL:[phone]
E-mail:[e-mail]

***************************************************

Answer 1

It sure looks like "hooie" to me.

The selling and sentence structure are both British, but both AOL and Microsoft are American companies.

Look at the e-mail address: It's a Yahoo! address! If there are two companies in the world that don't need a Yahoo! e-mail address, those two are AOL and Microsoft.

As another poster noted, the country code for the telephone number should be 1 rather than 44.

The last paragraph asks you to "make contact with [YOUR] designated agent, but, whoever he is, he is THEIR agent, not MINE.

The e-mail says to "contact our Fiduciary Agent for VALIDATION." It then lists Dr. John Mathins as the "Microsoft Promotion Award Team...." I would assume he is the Fiduciary Agent, but he is not identified as such.

Messages like this one are written by attorneys. They make everything crystal clear. This is a sham.

You might have some fun with this one, but be careful.

Scott

Answer 2

AOL and Microsoft with a Yahoo contact email?

That has to be the best "Come hither," of the 21 Century, . . . said the spider to the fly!

Answer 3

Sounds like houie to me. The giveaway is the +44 country code. The US is 1. If it was legate, it should be a 1 country code and a Microsoft email address. I would stay away.

Answer 4

i've got won a number of those interior the previous & I notified Yahoo. I DID word that those notifications did no longer have the Yahoo sort (Y w/a purple background). humorous element is that when Yahoo replied to my e mail - their e mail additionally did no longer have the respected Yahoo sort on it! My account continues to be up & working & i've got by no ability replied or replied to the demands of the e mail telling me that I had 24 hours to touch them @ the handle on their e mail. I assemble Yahoo is having a number of their own protection themes. that's unhappy that they are in a position to't seem to get a cope with on each and all the countless hacking agencies. real. ignore approximately THEM. do no longer worry analyzing them. Mark it unsolicited mail or in basic terms Delete. Then delete your trash folder on a regular basis.

Answer 5

If you have ever personally dealt with AOL or Microsoft, you'll KNOW that they don't EVER, EVER give away money for anything. ANY e-mails you receive that say that you're in a sweepstakes or a raffle at random are rubbish.

Answer 6

doesn't sound real to me.

look it up on snopes.